Bio
Rachel’s painting practice centres around how sound and space can be visually expressed. It is lens through which to explore the notion of presence and stillness and how we navigate our world finding moments to contemplate and imagine.
Much of her work is influenced the written word and by photography and the camera. She investigates both analogue and digital photography to aid in shaping both the composition and colour palettes of each painting.
Often, she will take a walk with her camera and capture light between buildings, on walkways, in the corners of rooms and bring these elements into the final piece.
More recently her focus has centred on scriptural writings, the meaning of having faith and how notions of belief, the science of the mind and our understanding of our world interweave.
Each work is purposefully minimal to allow for focus and space and for the viewer to find their own meaning within it.
Having trained initially in three dimensional design before moving into fine art though her MA at Leeds Arts University, she infuses design elements and principles into the composition of her paintings and is fascinated by how spaces can make us feel and affect our behaviour. Her research also covers sound and perception and how silence and presence are essential for our connection to something greater.
She works from her studio in Leeds and her work is held in private collections around the world.
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Exhibitions & Residencies
2024
East Street Arts - Leeds | Six Months Studio Practice Residency funded by Leeds Arts University Alumni
2023
Makers Fair | Manor House | Yorkshire
2021
Garden of Lost & Found | Soundscape | Left Bank Leeds | UK
2020
Test Transmissions | Falling Piano Notes- Soundscape piece for Blackford Hill Audio special bandcamp release, UK
2019-2020
Dawn Chorus | SoundScape Recording | National Trust Beningbrough Hall, UK
2019
Sound of Land | Yorkshire Sculpture Park | UK | Immersive Sound walk
2018
Sounds of Winter | Beningbrough Hall, York, UK
In Conversation | RK Burt Gallery, London, UK
ReMastered | Colours May Vary Gallery, Leeds, UK
Movement | Left Bank Art Prize (Selected), Leeds, UK
2017
Nocturne | Sound Installation | National Trust, Beningbrough Hall, York, UK
Nightwatch | (RE((SOUND)) exhibition. A two channel sound installation | Leeds Arts University, UK
‘Is this Ok?’ | Wharf Chambers, Leeds, UK
‘Approaching Nocturne’ | Studio 24, Leeds, UK
Stranieri | Residency at Casa deli Artisti | Trentino, Italy
Fragile Sounds | Heart Gallery, Leeds, UK
2016
Sea Forms | Women Art Food | The Leeds Gallery, UK
2015
Huia & Auk | The Forge, Camden, Ghosts of Gone Birds – Live Art Studio, London, UK
Member of the Professional Artist Institute